My choice would be #2 coil springs or the MB 550 depending on your budget and maybe a few Bridger #5 coil or #4 victor dbl long spring for beaver.

NO BS extreme jrs. I know you said nothing crazy expensive but this trap will hold every animal on your list and then some.

Victor #2 Coilspring , roundjaw is a pretty darn versatile trap. It’ll hold weasel , mink, skunk, possum, muskrat, red fox , gray fox, coon, bobcat, coyote. Not my first choice for otter and beaver but rigged right and in a pinch, it’ll do.

But that’s like buying just one gun lol ?!

As an example, not singling you out washxc, this would cost $233 (Schmitts price) for $249 you could have three dozen Duke 1.5. In Pa it's foxes and coons and mink,,,, mainly. You'd catch a lot more in 3 dozen traps than just 12 traps for very close to the same amount of money.

You cant possess a foot hold in that state and you live there why?

And for the same amount of money you could have twice the amount of dukes. They are not junk anymore. 25 years ago not so good but now a basically good trap......jk

The sleepy creek #11 has its fans.

Personally, I have caught everything from weasels to otter and beaver in #2 double longsprings.

Surely you mean that you can’t possess a foothold trap in the field?
Even the most communist state around can’t outlaw having them at your home.

Thorpe is not a good reference

Dude,,,,, ya did grow up on the internet………

Well I could go full on Internet trapping education and say clint Locklear somthing something #3dbls big pan long chain fully modified but I'm trying to behave lol

Kind of what I was saying,


Both we internet or magazine
Both were ok
I like Clint, but at a campfire, not my table.
Johnny or what ever his name was,,,,,,ummmmm

And laughing,,,,,,full on internet trapping education,,,,,not you ….

We’re is Matt Jones, Zag, and the rest when ya need them

Ask Newt Sterling about that. The NJ gestapo confiscated his entire trap collection and fined him thousands of dollars.



Charlie

Lol close enough
I know Matt Jones has his own deal going on FB , his personal page is pretty cool to follow . Zags probably around trying not to have an aneurysm over people thinking the pipe dream set is all about the pipe he's a wonderful guy to chat with though learned a lot from him though pm.

Lol
Got to make money somehow when ya get old

I wonder what Mats 330s spring look like after being compressed for all these years,,,, thinking viaga might help when dipping

Mb 550 will do anything you need it to on dry land.

buy traps for the species you are targeting. saving ten bucks to get a few traps all the same size is dumb

NJSA 23:4-22.1
State law (NJSA 23:4-22.1 to 23:4-22.8, effective October 1985) prohibits steel-jawed leghold type traps (coil spring and longspring traps) to be manufactured, sold, offered for sale, possessed, imported or transported, or used in this State except for the purpose of exhibition by humane or educational institutions or organizations; or, while in the act of turning over the traps to a law enforcement agency.


Got the bleep outa NJ talk about a stupid law

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and yes I know, NJ sucks. In the future I’d like to move to America but for now, New Germany it is.